Speaker Bios (back to Event Summary)
Colm McCormack, Global Indirect Tax Director, Autodesk
Sabine Prechtl, Head of Indirect Tax, BASF
Ingeborg Bosman-Molenaar, VP Tax, Global Tax Operations Lead, Cargill
Manus Mens, Senior Director Indirect Tax, Cisco
Based in Amsterdam, Manus is Senior Tax Director at Cisco, where he leads the International Indirect Tax team. Throughout his career, Manus has been dedicated to building the highest-performing, innovative tax functions leveraging cutting-edge people talent and IT technologiies. Since joining Cisco in 2005, he has held leadership roles within the Global Tax & Customs team, with responsibilities spanning Indirect Taxes, Direct Taxes, and Transfer Pricing across multiple regions, including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Canada, Asia, and ANZ. While based in Singapore, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, Manus managed global teams and drove strategic tax initiatives across regions and business functions, such as Supply Chain, R&D, M&A, Sales, New Business Models, and Finance Solutions. Prior to joining Cisco, Manus worked as an International Tax Lawyer at KPMG and EY, specializing in EU VAT law and Indirect Tax IT Solutions.
Christo Batchvarov, VAT Leader Europe, Coherent Corp.
Rico Buess, Indirect Tax Process & Technology Manager, Syngenta
Nora Bafrouri, Global VAT & Tax Technology Leader, Trane Technologies
Raul Corral, Indirect Tax Leader EMEA, TE Connectivity
Raul is a highly motivated Indirect Tax professional, spending the last 18 years working for large US multinationals (Apple, AMD and TE Connectivity), since 2008 with focus in Indirect Taxes & Compliance, gaining during these years a strong knowledge in the European VAT Law and its application in SAP. He has a proven track record of success in internal and external Audits, as well as counting with an outstanding success in building solid internal and external relationships, working together with and leading multicultural Finance and Tax Teams from US, Asia and Europe.
He has lived and worked in Spain, Germany, Ireland and Switzerland over the last 21 years. Fluent in Spanish (mother tongue), English and German.
Antonio Carlos Erbalato Jr., Global Tax Director – Indirect Tax, Reckitt
Samir Ulfati, Head of Indirect Tax, TP Vision
Henritta Amponsah, Head of Indirect Tax, Colt Technology Services
Henritta Amponsah leads the Group Indirect Tax function at Colt, where she is responsible for global indirect tax operations and compliance across EMEA and North America. She provides strategic business advisory and project leadership, particularly in areas of international expansion and risk mitigation.
Henritta brings extensive experience in indirect tax planning, with a strong focus on reducing VAT exposure and enhancing operational efficiency through process simplification and automation. Her approach combines technical expertise with a practical understanding of business needs, enabling her to deliver value across diverse markets.
Henritta is ACCA-qualified and has a solid foundation in accounting, which supports her ability to align tax strategy with broader financial and operational goals.
Baran Sari, Cross Functional Lead – Tax - IT, Dell Technologies
Simran Juneja, Senior Group Indirect Tax Manager, Just Eat Takeaway.com
Reka Okros, Director, Global Indirect Tax Counsel, Dover Corporation
Karina has more than 15 years experience in Indirect Taxes (including big4 and in-house) with a strong focus on Data and Technology. Favourite topics: Data scraping, Data validation, RPA, Tax Automation, Processes standardisation, Data Reporting, DAC7, CESOP, VAT Numbers validation, etc.
Marta Pankiv, Head of Global Tax, Tricentis
Louise Baxter, Global Tax Senior Manager, Skyscanner
Remco Dewaerheijt, VP Tax & Product Strategy, Blue dot
Remco is currently responsible for running globally the Tax Operations within Blue dot. Blue dot is offering different AI driven Tax and audit solutions running on their online platform. The most known is the VATBox VAT recovery Solution, but Blue dot also offers solutions to analyse data for Employee Benefits (wage tax), Corporate Income Tax and Policy Audit on Employee expenses. Before joining Blue dot, Remco worked as the EMEA VAT lead at PPG Industries and before that worked as a tax lawyer at Baker & McKenzie. Remco is registered as a certified tax advisor in the Netherlands.
Oleh Fedusiv, Senior Manager EMEA Tax, Uber
Oleh is tax pro with 13+ years' experience in international tax, transfer pricing, and indirect tax. He specializes in digital platform taxation. He has an LL.M. in tax law from Lund University.